Combined Gay News Headlines (T5T-1)

'Christian' of the day - Ohio

Here's another case of law enforcement spending taxpayer dollars busting gay men cruising for sex, and another fundie is caught in the dragnet.

 An Ohio man in a high place at a conservative Christian school is accused of soliciting sex in open air.

52-year-old Robert Williams, Chief Financial Officer of Cincinnati Christian University, was arrested with two others on Saturday, said to have "manually stimulated" an undercover police officer in Mount Airy Forest. He is charged with sexual imposition.

The university has placed Williams on administrative leave while officials "assess the facts of the case."

...Police stings targeting men who cruise men in places such as rest stops and public parks have been regarded as entrapment by activists, while hailed and encouraged by figures such as Fort Lauderdale, Florida mayor Jim Naugle, who proposed mechanical "robo-toilets" in public places to combat what he saw as an epidemic of gay men having public sex in the city's parks. The call to "flush Naugle" became louder as what he called a public health campaign was criticized as anti-gay prejudice.

'Christian' of the day - Ohio

Here's another case of law enforcement spending taxpayer dollars busting gay men cruising for sex, and another fundie is caught in the dragnet.

 An Ohio man in a high place at a conservative Christian school is accused of soliciting sex in open air.

52-year-old Robert Williams, Chief Financial Officer of Cincinnati Christian University, was arrested with two others on Saturday, said to have "manually stimulated" an undercover police officer in Mount Airy Forest. He is charged with sexual imposition.

The university has placed Williams on administrative leave while officials "assess the facts of the case."

...Police stings targeting men who cruise men in places such as rest stops and public parks have been regarded as entrapment by activists, while hailed and encouraged by figures such as Fort Lauderdale, Florida mayor Jim Naugle, who proposed mechanical "robo-toilets" in public places to combat what he saw as an epidemic of gay men having public sex in the city's parks. The call to "flush Naugle" became louder as what he called a public health campaign was criticized as anti-gay prejudice.

GA: Bigot Saxby Chambliss holds on to seat

And the margin is quite large; the old South rises again in Georgia in this runoff for the U.S. Senate race. I guess he got his white peeps side energized. (AP):

With 44 percent of precincts reporting, Chambliss had 61 percent of the vote to Martin's 39 percent. The early returns came mostly from rural counties where Republicans traditionally wield significant sway in a still-overwhelmingly red state. None of the urban Democratic strongholds had yet reported results an hour after the polls closed.

The hotly contested Georgia runoff between the former University of Georgia fraternity brothers will have a significant effect on the balance of power in Washington. Democrats in the U.S. Senate are just two votes shy of the 60 needed to block Republican filibusters - a key bid for power that would be immensely helpful as a Democrat heads to the White House for the first time in a decade.

Georgia is one of the two unresolved Senate races. In Minnesota, a recount is under way in a tight race between Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken. The ballots must be tallied by Friday but the contest could stretch beyond that with a five-member board gathering beginning Dec. 16 to rule on ballot challenges.

Vatican Cheers on Anti-LGBT Discrimination

Someone better head to confessional.

The Times Online is reporting that the Vatican has come out strongly against a United Nations declaration formally condemning anti-LGBT discrimination, saying that the declaration would lead to the decriminalization of same-sex unions.  The nonbinding resolution, created by France, condemns "discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity."

Well, the Vatican is having none of it.  The Vatican's permanent observer at the UN said that while the Catholic Church forbids "unjust discrimination" against homosexuals, outlawing discrimination by means of a UN declaration would pressure states that did not recognize same-sex unions to do so.

I guess the churches stance is simply "just" discrimination...
According to the Times:

Over 80 countries in the world currently outlaw same-sex relations, with punishments range from short prison sentences to life imprisonment and even death by execution. The UN declaration will not be binding, but gay rights movements hope it will lead to a UN resolution.

So the church would rather stand against same-sex unions and allow death sentences for LGBT people?  

Franco Grillini, founder and honorary president of Arcigay, Italy's leading gay rights group, told Rueters that the Vatican's reasoning smacked of "total idiocy and madness."

The French resolution, which is supported by all 27 members of the European Union, has nothing to do with gay marriage. It is about stopping jail and the death penalty for homosexuals.

So the Catholic Church is so afraid of same-sex unions that they are willing to allow the continued abuse and murder of the LGBT community in nations around the world.  

Unconscionable.  

(h/t Towleroad)